Smooching & herpes inseparable for more than 4,000 years
Troels Pank Arbøll & Sophie Lund Rasmussen examined cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq & Syria, looking for references to kissing
Turkey sold the bones of slaughtered Greeks & Armenians for industrial use
The news reports describe how the human remains originated from the port of Mudania on the Sea of Marmara in Turkey
The origins of kissing relocated to Mesopotamia
Evidence from various sources indicates that kissing was a well-established tradition even earlier than previously thought